04 October, 2012

Why School Should Focus on Engagement Instead of Lectures | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

Why School Should Focus on Engagement Instead of Lectures | TIME Ideas | TIME.com: When we free ourselves from the notion of one person delivering information at the front of a classroom at a set pace, it allows us to completely rethink our assumptions of what a classroom or school can be. We could then consider having multiple teachers in the same room working with students of multiple skill levels and age groups. A bell would no longer need to be rung to artificially stop one subject and to start the next. Ironically, by removing lecture from class time, we can make classrooms more engaging and human.